Is Mary Cheney a gay pawn? Her father n answer that | Joanna Walters Arizona | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER PREGNANT
• LIZ CHENEY, WHO SOLD OUT GAY SISTER, NOW OUT OF WYOMG SENATE RACE
• IS MARY CHENEY A GAY PAWN? HER FATHER N ANSWER THAT
• AFTER INFAMO RIFT WH GAY SISTER, LIZ CHENEY NOW ADMS 'I WAS WRONG' TO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• MARY CHENEY NEVER WANTED TO BE A GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVIST

THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER

Her parents rpond wh affirmatns, though her mother said she was wary of a future ma potentially harr by the world's homophobia. Long before Liz entered the polil arena, where she ultimately renounced gay marriage, the former VP seemed to have mastered a tricky balancg act.

CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE

A leadg Republin at a time when the party was mpaigng on forbiddg gay marriage, he voiced support for Mary, who was then a long-term relatnship wh her partner and future wife, Heather Poe. "Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue our fay is very faiar wh, " he explaed to supporters at a mpaign rally Iowa, addg, "Wh the rpect to the qutn of relatnships, my general view is eedom means eedom for everyone. A hopeful for the Republin nomatn a eply red part of the untry, Liz began to receive angry msag and TV attack ads that acced her of "aggrsively promot[g] gay marriage, " Poli reported.

CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER PREGNANT

Vice filmmaker McKay told GQ  2021 that he believed the bpic played a part Liz changg her posn on gay marriage.

LIZ CHENEY, WHO SOLD OUT GAY SISTER, NOW OUT OF WYOMG SENATE RACE

When Liz was first makg the bid for the seat she would eventually lose, she spoke out agast gay marriage spe the fact that her younger sister, Mary, was gay and married to long-time partner, Heather Poe, acrdg to the Los Angel Tim.

Acrdg to People, Mary Cheney had e out to her fay regardg her sexualy when she was still her teen years and was quietly accepted, wh her father walkg a fe le about the issue of gay marriage durg his years as vice print, helpg lead a party that was agast . When the Supreme Court clared gay marriage legal across the land 2015 (via NPR), both the Republin stance and Liz's stance began to evolve.

In 2020, Poli reported that sourc close to the ngrswoman said her views on gay marriage had changed over the years and that an obscure 2019 terview, Liz said she nsired gay marriage "the law of the land.

IS MARY CHENEY A GAY PAWN? HER FATHER N ANSWER THAT

Vice Print Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary is a lbian, drew cricism om both proponents and fo of gay marriage Tuday after he distanced himself om Print Bh’s ll for a nstutnal amendment to ban same-sex a mpaign rally this Mississippi River town, Cheney spoke supportively about gay relatnships, sayg “eedom means eedom for everyone, ” when asked about his stand on gay marriage.

“Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so ’s an issue our fay is very faiar wh, ” Cheney told an dience that clud his dghter.

The stat have ma that fundamental cisn of what nstut a marriage, ” he backs a nstutnal amendment prohibg gay marriage, a move Cheney says was prompted by var judicial lgs, cludg the actn Massachetts that ma gay marriage legal.

AFTER INFAMO RIFT WH GAY SISTER, LIZ CHENEY NOW ADMS 'I WAS WRONG' TO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

”Steven Fisher, spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay and lbian advocy group, said Cheney’s remarks show a stark difference wh Bh’s efforts “to put discrimatn the Constutn. There are lns of Amerin fai who have gay fay members and iends, who are offend by the print’s e of discrimatn, ” Fisher month, Lynne Cheney said stat should have the fal say over the legal stat of personal relatnships, a ment that me jt days before the Senate failed to back the said the amendment did not have the vot to pass, but he also said the feral Defense of Marriage Act, which Print Clton signed to law 1996, may be enough. She held a public role as her father’s assistant the 2000 mpaign and helped the GOP rec gay voters durg the 2002 midterm the 2000 mpaign, vice printial ndidate Cheney took the posn that stat should ci legal issu about personal relatnships and that people should be ee to enter relatnships of their choosg.

The Democratic ndidat also oppose gay marriage, but fend a gay uple’s rights to the same legal protectns as those nferred marriage.

Mary Cheney, the gay dghter of Vice Print Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, is Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expectg a baby, said Lea Anne McBri, a spokwoman for the vice print. In the 2018 bgraphil edy-drama film ‘Vice’, is shown that one of the few reemg quali of former US Vice Print Dick Cheney is his love for his younger dghter Mary, which leads him to accept her homosexualy and her relatnship and eventual marriage to Heather Poe. A few weeks before that, Mary, a post that received much ls attentn, wrote that her sister’s opn on gay marriage was “ad wrong”.

THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER

The polls, which showed her gettg thumped, had to have been pretty may also have bee nseated by the ia that she put polics above fay when she sold out her sister on natnal televisn to rebut charg that she was not sufficiently agast gay marriage. This unnecsary and unpleasant fay drama surely did nothg to enar Cheney to voters her native Cheney learned the hard way, you nnot thread the needle on gay marriage 2009, when she worked for the State Department, Liz Cheney told MSNBC she opposed a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage and supported extendg feral benefs to same-sex upl.

Gay marriage, she said, should be cid by the gave a nservative Super PAC fodr for an attack ad pictg her as soft on gay marriage and “wrong for Wyomg. ”Trivializg gay marriage as “jt an issue” is like sayg separate water fountas and racially segregated schools are “jt an issue” on which some folks disagreed. You nnot be for gay marriage private and agast bad the Cheneys were not kd enough, or lovg enough, to add a sentence supportg their younger dghter.

Gay marriage is out of the bag and ’s not gog back needs to exame her nscience and figure out why she thks ’s OK to nigrate her sister’s fay a way she would never tolerate the nigratn of her om Rob AbrianJahi McMath’s fay: We want to help the girl, not ‘play God’Palmdale woman rcued, boyiend arrted alleged kidnappgTwter:.

MARY CHENEY NEVER WANTED TO BE A GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Now that's somethg pletely and lbians have reacted wh anger to the latt twist the US electn - but not wh Kerry for brgg up the subject of Vice-Print Dick Cheney's lbian dghter, Mary, durg the printial 'Duel the Dert' Arizona last, gays are fur that the Cheneys are, supposedly, fur, and that the mastream media has whipped self up to a enzy over the issue.

Instead of headl about Kerry's succsful performance the three bat and how they uld project him to the Whe Hoe, 's sudnly all about ntroversy arose after the morator last Wednday's TV bate asked both ndidat if they thought beg gay was a matter of choice or birth. ' Kerry lost his edge aga some of the Cheney himself equently mentns Mary as his 'gay dghter' on the mpaign trail when he is tryg to pat his party as passnate nservativ, so beg ed is nothg is a leadg light the Bh-Cheney team, me out of the closet a few years ago and has worked as an advote for gay-iendly employment rights big rporatns. Kerry is beg bold, strategilly standg up for Mary, and the Republins are shook up, that's all, ' said New York TV producer and gay rights mentator Nancy is not clear if the Cheneys are angry at the polics gettg personal general or whether is the specific public claratn of Mary's sexualy.